Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1904 — RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RAILROADS

The annual report of the Allegheny Valley for the past fiscal year shows gross earnings of $4,938,191, an increase of $745.11X1. The directors of the Canada Southern will double-track their road for sixty miles-between St. Thomas, Ontario, and Buffalo, N. Y. It is stated that earnings of Toledo, St. Louis and Western are showing up favorably, mid that the present outlook indicates satisfactory returns yfor some time to come. A bill lias been favorably reported i i the New York Legislature at Albany to increase tlie number of members in tlie State Railroad Commission from three to five, and to enlarge the powers of tlie commission.

Surveys have been completed nnd rights ot way obtained for the Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company, which proposes to build a new line from Youngstown, Ohio, to Lorain, on the shore of Lake Erie. The Canadian Freight Association announces that an agreement has been reached permitting tlie shipping companies running from Montreal to Tort Arthur to quote differential rat»s on nil classes of freight,./,rom Montreal through the West. The railroads in Mexico arc anxious to be in shape to do a heavy business out of tlie republic for the world's fair, and the different lines of that country have submitted a proposition for a rate of or# fare, plus $2. between Mexico points nnd St. Louis on account of the exposition.

During the last two years the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern has equipped fifty-nine miles of its system with the latest improved block signals, and dining the |>ext few months this work will be extended forty-eight miles further, from Dunkirk, N. Y., to Erie, Pa. The authorities of th* St. Txtuia world’s fair have adopted rates and rule* for the storage and switching of private rars on the exposition grounds. The rat* per day, for more than one day, will be »10, but if a car is on the ground only On* day tho minimum chrrg* will bo